A few years ago I called on an old friend In London,
England. He was over 80 years of age, very ill, and obviously
was yielding to his advancing years. Our conversation revealed
his physical weakness, his sense of frustration, and a general
deterioration almost approaching lifelessness. His cry was
that he was useless and that no one wanted him. With an
expression of hopelessness he betrayed his false philosophy,
“We are born, grow up, become old, good for nothing, and
that’s the end.”
This mental attitude of futility and worthlessness was the
chief reason for his sickness. He was looking forward only to
senescence, and after that – nothing. Indeed, he had grown old
in his thought life, and his subconscious mind brought about
all the evidence of his habitual thinking.